WIIW The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies - Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche

Alexandra Bykova is Head of the Statistics Department, responsible for coordination of department’s activities, and an Economist. She is country expert for Kazakhstan and in charge of statistical coverage of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine. Her thematic focus is on digitalisation and financial indicators. Alexandra has overall responsibility for the wiiw Monthly Database. She coordinates the data part of the wiiw Monthly Report, and contributes to the further development of wiiw Databases and various wiiw data visualisation projects, in particular the CESEE Visual Data Explorer and Austria & CESEE. She obtained her Master’s degree in mathematical methods of economic analysis and PhD in Economics from the Lomonosov Moscow State University.